Fargesia dracocephala SUNSET GLOW ‘Rufa’ Vigorous clumping grower featuring purple-red sheaths on new culms with dense slightly weeping habit. Wind tolerant. Height: 6’-10’ Spread: 6’-8’ Growth: Fast Soil: Well-drained, moist Zone(s): 5-9 | ‘Rufa’ GREEN PANDA Herbaceous evergreen ornamental with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit featuring fine textured foliage against rusty red sheaths. Does well in containers. Height: 8’-10’ Spread: 6’-8’

Fargesia nitida FOUNTAIN BAMBOO Slow-growing, clump-forming bamboo, with olive-purple stems, dark green leaves, and an upright habit. Clumping. Height: 10’-15’ Spread: 10’-15’ Growth: Slow Soil: Well-drained, medium Zone(s): 5-9 |

Fargesia murielae UMBRELLA BAMBOO Graceful non-aggressive clumping bamboo with thin stems shooting up quickly in early summer and older canes elegantly arching out forming a broad vase shape. The small thin evergreen leaves are bright green and delicate in appearance. Works well as a screen and in containers. Clumping. Height: 10’-12’ Spread: 10’-12’ Growth: Fast Soil: Well-drained, moist RUNNING VS Zone(s): 5-9 | CLUMPING BAMBOO Fargesia robusta Running bamboo can develop a dense natural screen providing More tolerant of full hot sun compared to other privacy in the landscape. Runners spread through rhizomes Fargesia. Graceful olive-green foliage against allowing it to expand rather quickly. They are recommended for white cane sheaths. Clumping. large open areas and soil erosion control. However, they can become aggressive, barrier installation is recommended. Installing Height: 12’-15’ Spread 15’-17’ a thick plastic rhizome barrier about 24-30 inches deep around the Growth: Fast perimeter of the area in which the bamboo is to be contained is one Soil: Well-drained, moist of the most effective ways to prevent the bamboo from taking over Zone(s): 7-9 where it would be undesired. Phyllostachys species are common running bamboos sold at Cavicchio Greenhouses, Inc. Clumping bamboo make excellent specimen plants and will form very dense screens, but more slowly than runners. Because of the short root structure they will not expand more than few inches a year and will generally form discrete clumps. These clumps slowly enlarge as new culms emerge every year. It is not necessary to surround the plant with a barrier, but they may be shaped to prevent them from putting pressure on any surrounding structures. Simply remove new shoots at the soil level when they get undesirably close. Fargesia is a common cold hardy clumping bamboo.

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with random green stripes. Runing. Height: Growth: Soil: Zone(s): ‘Aureocaulis’ Giant hardy bamboo with a beautiful display of golden yellow culms painted Phyllostachys vivax

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BLACK BAMBOO Known for its new culms that emerge green every spring and gradually turn black in one to three years against slender dark green leaves. Initially slow to spread, but can be quite vigorous when it matures. Running. Height: Growth: Soil: Zone(s): BISSET’S BAMBOO Extremely vigorous bamboo with dark green culms and evergreen foliage that Running. can form a dense canopy. Height: Growth: Soil: Zone(s): ‘Spectabilis’ with a brightThis form has yellow canes will turngreen stripe, but the new canes the sun. Culmsburgundy-red if exposed to occasionallywill also form a zigzag pattern Growth: Soil: Zone(s): Phyllostachys aureosulcata Phyllostachys at the base. Height: Phyllostachys nigra Phyllostachys bissetii YELLOW GROOVE bamboo that has a yellowA hardy running green culm. Culms willstrip on a dark abrupt zigzags in the lowersometimes have is rigidly upright. Lanceolateportion, but it hairy at the bases. green leaves are Height: Growth: Soil: Zone(s): Phyllostachys aureosulcata